IA employment agency bonds.
$900. Five minutes.
Iowa requires a licensed employment agency to file a fixed $30,000 bond with the Division of Labor — ours is $900 flat, which is 3% of the bond amount. The application is five minutes, and license bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Division of Labor
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your employment agency license application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$30,000 bond × 3% = $900, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Iowa licenses employment agencies through the Division of Labor under Iowa Code chapter 94A. The license covers a business that charges a job seeker a fee for help finding work, and the State conditions it on a $30,000 surety bond filed with the agency license application.
The bond is a consumer-protection guarantee conditioned to pay damages that accrue to any person from a wrongful act or violation of law by the agency in conducting its business. It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State of Iowa (the obligee), with job seekers as the protected parties.
The bond must stay active for the life of your license, which expires June 30 each year. Let it lapse and your license is at risk — so we track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out. If the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety; it is a guarantee, not insurance for you.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
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If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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$900 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.